Dear Members and Friends of the ELS: Good Christians all, this Christmas time, Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done, In sending His beloved Son. While we call Christmas Day the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord, we also recognize it as the feast day of the […]

Dear Members and Friends of the ELS: A blessed New Church Year to you and yours! It began on Sunday, November 28, the First Sunday in Advent. Consider these words from Bishop Nils Jakob Laache: “In this Church year you shall again experience with all the saints that Jesus is the same faithful and mighty […]

Dear Members and Friends of the ELS: Recently I reread portions of Luther’s Galatians commentary, and was revived in proper Gospel preaching. Especially on pp. 4–12, I once again realized the importance of emphasizing the Christian’s passive righteousness. That is the righteousness we receive from Christ’s holy life lived in our place and credited to […]

Dear Members and Friends of the ELS: Greetings in the name of our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ! On April 18 we observed the 500th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther’s refusal before the Emperor to recant his writings unless shown from clear Scripture to be in error. While this was a bold and courageous stance, we […]

Dear Members and Friends of the ELS: As we currently observe Holy Week, I would like to share these devotional thoughts recently used with the Parkland Lutheran School faculty: “[The Sanhedrin] sentenced [Jesus] to death; not because He had done anything against human or divine Law; all the false witnesses they procured could not fix […]